Text: Michael J. Deas, “[Figure 77],” The Portraits and Daguerreotypes of Edgar Allan Poe (1989), p. 171 (This material is protected by copyright)


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Spurious portrait of Virginia Clemm Poe

77 · Alleged portrait of Virginia Clemm Poe attributed to Thomas Sully

Oil on canvas(?), approximately 39 x 30 inches; whereabouts of original unknown

Copy photograph courtesy of the Frick Art Reference Library, New York City


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Notes:

For a note on more recent ownership, see the addendum.


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[S:1 - PDEAP, 1989] - Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Bookshelf - The Portraits and Daguerreotypes of Edgar Allan Poe (M. J. Deas) (Figure 77)